I have just started reading and thought you might like to see a couple of the trees to which Bail refers. On page 2-3 he writes of the River Red Gum:
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Too masculine, too overbearingly masculine; covered in grandfatherly warts and carbuncles, as well.
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Here's an example, which I photographed (appropriately beside the river) in a town called Menindee in New South Wales.
Then he goes on to talk about the Ghost Gum, which is found in the centre of Australia and looks particularly striking in contrast with the red soil there. The second photograph shows one in King's Canyon.